OPTIMIZING Linux Mint for the casual gamer - 5 tips 

This saved me! My 1st gen i5 laptop was overheating and shutting down while playing Silent Hill 2 for a few minutes. Limiting the number of cores helped me a lot. been running the game for a few hours now with no issues.

@@HeatherMason6733 underclock ur cpu bro and repaste that thermal paste

Just fyi it's under System Settings -> General -> Disable compositing for full-screen windows

For those wondering, this doesn't exist anymore.

​@@vulcan4dwhy

@@vulcan4d Not sure what version you are using, but it's still in 21.3. It's at the location Gordoxgrey mentioned above.

did you get any improvements? Ive been struggling with microstutter on helldivers 2 on multiple distros, couldnt find a way to fix it.

@@user-yq3gd8bf8p Turned out my problem was actually caused by the X display framework. It's not handling multiple monitors well. Unplug the second one to see if that's your issue. I switched to Fedora KDE with Wayland for now and it's a great improvement. Mint is working on rolling out Wayland with Cinnamon.

There is also another linux kernel that is really good for gaming in mint. Every time I try to post its name, the YT blocks my comment. It sounds like a red viney piece of candy but is spelled like an adult drink. I have been using it for some time, and it is the debian based distos version of arches zen. Lick-or-ix

What permission should be enabled for that?

Can you go over exactly how to do that?

How is LMDE not official version of Mint?

I've been hopping around for the last 2 weeks cause I had some issues on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with gaming specifically so I decided to go back to the tried and true Linux mint & this advice was the biggest game changer. I'm basically getting the same performance as I did on Tumbleweed now.

Console gaming 🤮

@@ransacked Hey... I bring up the Steam Deck. It's also a console for gaming.

Yes. Version 37 was working fine with a few small marks. The 38 update turned most things black. Regards

@@dreaper5813 tsk tsk, further misleading information from the gatekeeper. Nobara has kernel level modifications for nvidia users, crafted by GloriousEggroll himself. Please ignore this jester and submit a bug report to GE.

If you switch back try out LMDE 6 version. It might help your situation

If you don't need fancy gui, you can use ssh which is more universal. However if you need gui, use vnc.

As a GUI there is Gnome Remote which supports the VNC and RDP protocols.

Uuh, well Arch is just supremely versatile, but only if you know how to operate a naked linux system, because that's basically what arch is, it's a "build your own OS" type of distro... So you have to manually install everything you need, and that means knowing the terminal commands like the back of your hand. The only help you get for this process is an online handbook written to be read by highly tech-savvy people, so if you're an average user, most of that handbook is gonna be pure gibberish to you. But if you ARE that tech-savvy, then Arch is basically the only distro anyone can recommend to you, as you just get supreme customizability... But if you aren't super tech-savvy, then Linux Mint is probably your best choice. personally i'm going with Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 (LMDE 6), because i personally believe Debian is the future due to their conservative update philosophy and cycle, and i also want to minimize the amount of clutter and potential bloatware... Now that the Ubuntu version of mint is at risk of turning into another Michaelsoft Bimboes, because Ubuntu is now officially owned by an actual company.

@dreaper5813 Ah yes, he showcases an NVIDIA overclocking app, because he uses AMD hardware... totally makes sense. xD

Cinnamon

InfinitelyGalactic uses Linux Mint Cinnamon.

@@gelbphoenix Its Great.. Thank you.

@@ZiadEl-sayed-hm6de Well due to the nature of me using 4k oled TV as a monitor, my migration to LMDE6 has been delayed. So it hasn't happened yet. For some reason HDMI decided to NOT allow linux 4k 120 hz so... I need to buy a new monitor, lmao.

Steam uses this thing called "proton". It's a compatibility layer that makes it possible to run windows games and programs on linux. Proton is based off of wine.

@@SnazzyButterfly But you can see in the video that Steam itself marks this game as uninstallable in Linux (the install button is greyed out), and says that it only works on Windows.

@@DragDenDFO there’s a setting in steam you have to toggle on to get it to work with all games.

@@SnazzyButterfly Oh, huh, I had no idea! Thank you!

Install Windows.

val isn't coded to run on linux

You don't

The point I'm trying to make here is bringing up the constant conversation of getting these games the nobody wants but everyone plays on Linux. These tweaks are fun and all but why bother when I have to use windows to use adobe and valorant anyways? And "just don't do xyz" isn't an answer. Everyone knows it's not an answer that's why they moan and whine so loud when valorant is brought up. How about we actually have conversations with these products and unify the Linux kernel? How about we stabilize the aspects of the open platform to allow these products to feel like their games aren't just used to try out a new cheat engine. How about you actually allow people to download the spyware regardless of if it's good enough or not. Because frankly they will do it anyways just on windows.

@@dreaper5813 why are you crying dude, we get it - you don't like a game